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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 20 – The First and Second Resurrections
resurrection, come up, with the Devil at their

head, and tread with their unhallowed feet

upon the purified and holy earth, and the

saints, who have held possession for a

thousand years, are obliged to yield the

ground, and flee into the city. But we cannot

believe that the saints’ inheritance will ever be

thus marred, or that the fair plains of the earth

made new will ever be soiled with the

polluting tread of the resuscitated wicked; for

besides outraging all ideas of propriety, there

is no scripture from which even an inference

can be drawn to support it.

And as to the second view, one among many of

its absurdities is that notwithstanding Christ

and his saints have conquered the earth

during the thousand years, at the end of this

period the wicked get the upper hands of